NEW DEPARTMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 92, 18 April 1929, Page 7

NEW DEPARTMENT

A HOME FOUND [ Special ’’Chronicle” Service ] WELLINGTON, April 17. After a period of inactivity, due to lhe newly appointed Commissioner of Transport being unable to relinquish his duties with the. Railway Department, a home has at last been found for the new department. Mr J. H. Hunter has 1 icon installed upon the ground floor of the Prime -Ministerial residence in Tinakori Road, which is vacant through Sir Joseph Ward’s disinclination to move his home from Herctaunga where he has li d for a good many y.cars. In his new quarters the Commissioner of Transport is gathering a staff about him and is devising the necessary machinery for carrying out the work of his Department. *The scope of has activities is even yet undeterminedIt is understood that comprehensive proposals are at last complete and that they will be laid before the Minister of Transport (Hon W. A. Veitch) within a few days. Immediate issue with the wider problems of transportation is unlikely, and it is anticipated that a policy ol careful development of the Department will be pursued. 1 rom a reliable source it is learned that the question of a Department of Transport was one which had engaged the attention of Mr Coates when he was in power and that he would probably have dealt with it this year.